Word: wavers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isolationists Waver...
...after the invasion of the Lowlands, and the beginning of the Battle of France, that the isolationist front began to waver, and the war of words grew more bitter. Toward the end of May, 300 undergraduates signed a petition to President Roosevelt registering their determination "never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students of 1917." This raised a storm of protest in the press over the alleged defeatism and lack of patriotism of Harvard students...
...supposed, as many do, that all they had to do was keep time with the orchestra got a quick awakening. If they omitted the conventional opening down beat of the baton, Sammy Kaye's men kept mum. The orchestra played exactly as fast or slow as the stick-waver indicated, however unintentionally. If a saxophone or trombone thought he saw a signal to come in, he did so regardless-with the result that periodically everything broke down...
...conditioned almost to the point of innocence by long practice in commercial writing, displaying at every critical point the artistic acumen of a flashy sophomore. Novelist Bromfield is famed for his "characters"; Night in Bombay'?, are so weakly conceived that they not only lack inner consistency but sometimes waver in their physique (e.g., sinister Mr. Botlivala's hands are "very long and thin and very collapsible" on page 74, "plump little hands" on page...
Yankee Doodle Boy hits pretty hard at Cohan's early days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing. But as Cohan matures, the story mellows, draws an affectionate picture of the Great Flag-Waver in his prime. Playing the old songs, bringing on the scene David Belasco, Fay Templeton, George Arliss, Yankee Doodle Boy marches up to 1939. Of young James Graham's take-off of Cohan's take-off of F. D. R. in I'd Rather Be Right, Cohan remarked...